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Marine Biological Laboratory Board of Trustees Elect New Chairman, Three New Members
A worm embryo with labelled skin cells moves around under the microscope. Raw image projections (left) with identified nuclei (center) and corresponding posture model (right). Credit: Evan Ardiel
Opening the Black Box of Late Neurodevelopment
The water flea Daphnia. Credit Poryecto Agua, cc-by-nc-sa
What’s New Under the Sun? Offering An Alternate View on Evolutionary Novelty
Grass Fellow Z. Yan Wang visiting an active California two-spot octopus (O. bimaculoides) at the Marine Resources Center. Photo by Nora Bradford.
Live Fast, Die Young: Grass Fellow Explores Octopus's Death Spiral
cephalopod imaged during the 2022 embryology course
A California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) imaged during the 2022 Embryology course at the MBL. This image was taken on a Leica THUNDER system. Credit: Hannah Jones

Students in this summer's Advanced Research Training Courses have access to state-of-the-art microscopy equipment through MBL's Imaging Innovation Center.

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Research News
Marsh and marsh grass. Photo by Megan Costello
Does Excess Nitrogen Cause a Marsh to Build Up or Collapse? Team to Resolve Contradictions
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A worm embryo with labelled skin cells moves around under the microscope. Raw image projections (left) with identified nuclei (center) and corresponding posture model (right). Credit: Evan Ardiel
Opening the Black Box of Late Neurodevelopment
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Striped bass migrate to Eel Pond in May and leave in October. Credit: Ethan Gordon (www.ethangordon.com)
Telling Time: Eel Pond’s Striped Bass Help MBL Scientists Characterize Biological Rhythms
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Education News
Almarely L. Berrios-Negron (left), John Gonzalez-Amoretti (center), and Yesenia Garcia-Sifuentes (right) share their experiences in the three-week long SPINES course. Credit: Yesenia Garcia-Sifuentes and Almarely L. Berrios-Negron
Take Five: SPINES Students Reflect on their MBL Experiences
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Student-made Winogradsky Columns. Project funded by the MBL Alumni ROCS program.
DIY Microscopes to Microbial Discovery: Alumni Bring MBL Spirit to Local Communities
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An axolotl in a tank in the Echeverri Lab at the MBL. Credit: Cristian Selden
Studying a Gene Lurking in the Regeneration Pathway of Axolotls: A Summer of Research at the MBL
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The inaugural 2022 Building Innovation Through Diversity (BID) cohort and their hosts.
Inaugural “Building Innovation through Diversity” Cohort Comes to the MBL
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MBL Spotlight
Stamp depicting biologist EE Just
Stamps of Approval | The University of Chicago Magazine
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MBL Campus
Marine Biological Laboratory Board of Trustees Elect New Chairman, Three New Members
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Hari Shroff with his DiSPIM microscope in Lillie Laboratory in 2017. Credit Diana Kenney
Hari Shroff: The Science & Play of Imaging | NIH Speaking of Science Podcast
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Anna Clemencia Guerrero, creator of the “Seeing Cells” exhibit in the Bay Reading Room of the MBLWHOI Library.
MBL Exhibits Show Entwined History of Microscopy and Cell Biology
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Media Mentions
Atlantic Surf Clam Credit K.D. Wyman iNaturalist
If a Clam Can Live to 500, Why Can’t We? | The Atlantic
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Students in the Woods Hole PEP Program
Facing Adversity, Science-Minded College Students Bring Diversity to Woods Hole | Cape Cod Times
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Plate 5 from the zoology of the voyage of the HMS Beagle. Red and black bird on a tan background
This Vast Library of Life Puts Nature Online | The Washington Post
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